De-publishing owns words...
Publishing, permanence, and transparency
A palimpsest is a manuscript on which an earlier text has been effaced and the vellum or parchment reused for another.
Under heavy surveillance (which has now ceased), Dave Winer reacted:
Now that people have set up a system to record everything on Scripting that I post within five minute intervals, I don't think I'll be writing any more of that stuff here. I guess it's time for weblogs to become like television. Polished and politically correct. Impersonal. Commercial. [Scripting News]
I understand and sympathize, but I think a bigger story is unfolding around us. Last year, I wrote an item entitled Walking the fault lines about my experiences with SOAP and WSDL. Scripting News picked up on it. (This was the same posting that began my serendipitous association with an Indian programmer named Nishant S. [1, 2].) Later that day, using the Meerkat aggregator, I noticed there were two versions of Dave's commentary, and I wrote:
... [Jon's Radio]
Jon put the whole story in perspective with good references and materials.
Posted by fgranger at July 16, 2003 06:43 PM
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